
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Ignoring Harriet Miers

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The Enlightenment made explicit what had long been implicit in the intellectual life of Europe: the belief that rational inquiry leads to objective truth. Even those Enlightenment thinkers who distrusted reason…never relinquished their confidence in rational argument…For the ensuing 200 years, reason retained its position as the arbiter of truth and the foundation of objective knowledge…But reason is now on the retreat, both as an ideal and as a reality. - Roger Scruton, 1999
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From Kirsten: President Bush "reluctantly" accepts Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's request to withdraw her nomination.
Damn! I wanted to see some hat-eatin'.
It's so much fun to be right!
She has stepped aside here is the article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/us-politics/miers.html
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